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THE GREAT CONSPIRACY

Its Origin and History

Part 5

BY

JOHN LOGAN

CHAPTER XVIII.

FREEDOM PROCLAIMED TO ALL.

While mentally revolving the question of Emancipation--now, evidently"coming to a head,"--no inconsiderable portion of Mr. Lincoln's thoughtscentered upon, and his perplexities grew out of, his assumption that the"physical difference" between the Black and White--the African andCaucasian races, precluded the idea of their living together in the oneland as Free men and equals.

In his speeches during the great Lincoln-Douglas debate we have seenthis idea frequently advanced, and so, in his later public utterances asPresident.

As in his appeal to the Congressional delegations from the Border-States